A TRUE ACCOUNT

OF THE

HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION;

ITS PURPOSES AND PRETENCES.

A TRUE ACCOUNT

OF

THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION;

ITS PURPOSES AND PRETENCES:

BY

AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT.

WITH PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS, RESPECTING THE LIBERALS
ABROAD AND THE LIBERAL PARTY AT HOME.

ESPECIALLY INTENDED FOR THE

PERUSAL OF ROMAN CATHOLICS.

BY WILLIAM BERNARD MACCABE,

AUTHOR OF "A CATHOLIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND."

"If this will not suffice, it must appear

That malice bears down truth."

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Act. iv. S. 1.

LONDON:

RICHARDSON AND SON, 172, FLEET STREET;

9, CAPEL STREET, DUBLIN; AND DERBY.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

CHAPTER I.

Truth as opposed to popular prejudices. The Roman Catho-
lics suffering from prejudices that they know to be founded on
falsehoods. Appeal, therefore, made with confidence to them
to hear what can be alleged in disproof of the erroneous notions
now prevalent with reference to the late Hungarian Revolu-
tion. Various classes in the British Empire sympathise with
the Magyars. Specification of those classes. The cause of
"the Liberals" and the Magyars the same-both oppressors of
the poor. The origin of “a Liberal party:" its main principle,
spoliation of property devoted to the sustentation of the poor.
Traces of a Liberal party in Anglo-Saxon times. The purposes
of the Liberal party at the Reformation and in modern times the
same; the pretences different. Proofs in falsification of the
Reformation-pretence "religious liberty." Social and Political
results of the "Liberal" Reformation in Germany and in Eng-
land-spoliation of the Church-oppression of the poor-tyranny
of princes-proofs taken from Protestant writers

CHAPTER II.

...

The "Liberals" in modern times-to them attributable
all the horrors of the French revolution-prevent necessary
reforms-maltreatment of the working classes. Similarity of
the Girondins and Magyars. Reasons why "the Liberal party,"
in England, sympathised with the French Revolutionists.
Two classes of revolutionists, "the genteel" the Girondins, "and
the vulgar" the Red Republicans and Communists. Definition
of the tests of a good and bad government. The form or name of

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